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Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Dameon on June 11, 2004, 05:40:41 am

Title: I did it! 2004
Post by: Dameon on June 11, 2004, 05:40:41 am: Well, although many of you probably don\'t care ( :) ), today I graduated from american high school! I am so happy right now!
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Post by: faldrok on June 11, 2004, 07:13:08 am: Gratz man!! Although I was disappointed when I clicked on this topic to read it, cuz I thought it was a breakthrough of Narrowmire. :P Anyways, good job. It isn\'t easy when some teaches are total asses. =.=
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Post by: DepthBlade on June 11, 2004, 06:22:27 pm: Congradulations I did as well last friday :) Who else graduated this year? I know theres a few more I heard about!
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Post by: druke on June 11, 2004, 06:50:45 pm: 2 years to go here
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Post by: Auran on June 11, 2004, 06:58:03 pm: Pah you just exhausted the best years of your life. Although I do sincerely wish that what i say be not true but still there is a very high probability that what has passed will not be surpassed by the future.

That said i wish you good luck for the future and may your each year be happier than the last.

PS: i graduated this month too. From college. And i have given in to the fact that the next 25-30 odd years will offer no respite. But that is what life is. We must make the best of what we get. After all we must pay back to the society the debts of a happy childhood and the price of a peaceful retirement.:)
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Post by: Xordan on June 11, 2004, 07:14:49 pm: Congratz :)

I\'m in the middle of my GCSE exams now, which are our end of high school exams (um, think that\'s 11 grade for you, I\'m 16 so work it out for yourselves). :) Then I got 2 more years in school as I\'m gonna do my A levels, which is the good version of college over here. :D
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Post by: windwalker on June 12, 2004, 03:57:47 am: 1 more week and i graduate.... and then i\'ll be active in ps again... for the summer anyway... i love canadian school system.... honor role.... but might fail chemistry :D
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Post by: Melbourne on June 13, 2004, 08:50:49 am: Come on people, it\'s the american education system. A retarded monkey can pass high school.
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Post by: faldrok on June 13, 2004, 09:55:38 am: Then, how come we have one of the highest literacy rate? Well, if it isn\'t the top 10, we have a very high literacy rate, nonetheless. We were also the first people with the Atomic Bomb. Gotta be pretty smart to do that. Not trying to brag or anything, but we aren\'t stupid idiots that know nothing.
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Post by: tygerwilde on June 13, 2004, 10:32:52 am: Actually, I read in college that america has the lowest literacy rate of all of the nuclear powers, and lower than some non nuclear nations
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Post by: Xalthar on June 13, 2004, 11:59:28 am: well seing as the first steps to the atomic bomb were taken in nazi germany, and more than half of the scientists that helped in it\'s creation were european, I don\'t see how that makes you Americans any smarter :P

what tyger said is true..

Grats btw, dameon!
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Post by: Xordan on June 13, 2004, 03:03:33 pm: lol, all the great scientists are europian. :D

Edit: Oh yeah, and if your President is representing your country in how clever you all are, you\'re all dumb. xD j/k (No, really, GWB is really stupid)
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Post by: snow_RAveN on June 13, 2004, 05:45:19 pm: retard monkeys are smarter then PEOPLE !

j/k :P

education systems vary from country to country
certain systems like the dannish system, which encourages alot of creativity (according to the newspapers)

it depends mostly on the country\'s ecomic need, which most education systems are designed upon
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Post by: Dameon on June 14, 2004, 04:59:52 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Melbourne
Come on people, it\'s the american education system. A retarded monkey can pass high school.

Now that was really uncalled for. Its not that one system is better, just variances in school system management. Europe values education over everything, while american students are out working while getting an education. The school system in many states has gotten a lot harder, however. For example, the MCAS or the FCAT (in Massachusetts and Florida respectively) will not let you graduate unless it is passed, thus raising the standards of education but also raising a lot of controversy.

So please, do not comment on things you have no knowledge of.
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Post by: DepthBlade on June 14, 2004, 06:13:12 pm: hehehe Melbourne I like that :P Although not every school is the same some hold higher values than others which in return gives higher education!
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Post by: Ineluke on June 15, 2004, 03:44:54 pm: Quote
Originally posted by tygerwilde
Actually, I read in college that america has the lowest literacy rate of all of the nuclear powers, and lower than some non nuclear nations

From where did you read this?

Oh and where is all this God DaM#ed antiamerican sentiment coming from and how does it make any sense?

Oh yeah because you were born in europe you are better than us? ?(
People have no choice over where they are born...
You might as well make fun of someone for their hair color or how tall they are...

:D I may or may not have something on my head. :D
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Post by: Ghostslayer on June 16, 2004, 02:06:47 am: Quote
Originally posted by Ineluke
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Originally posted by tygerwilde
Actually, I read in college that america has the lowest literacy rate of all of the nuclear powers, and lower than some non nuclear nations

From where did you read this?

Oh and where is all this God DaM#ed antiamerican sentiment coming from and how does it make any sense?

Oh yeah because you were born in europe you are better than us? ?(
People have no choice over where they are born...
You might as well make fun of someone for their hair color or how tall they are...

:D I may or may not have something on my head. :D

Well, just googling it, US seems to have 97% literacy rate with 22 countries having a higher rate. It also says though that each country has unique methods to measure literacy rate, so I wouldn\'t get too uptight about it ;)

What the others may have found out is info such as this site: http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/faqs.html which basically says that while there is very few illiterate people in the US, there is a much higher percentage with poor literacy skills.
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Post by: Skizzik on June 18, 2004, 06:38:19 pm: Congratulations Dameon.

And now for a bit of HEEEYEHEEYUEYHEUEEEHYEEEHUY!
Whoever guesses what that\'s about gets a nothing.

No wait, I\'ll save you the trouble, I graduated! :D:D:D
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Post by: sashok on June 18, 2004, 11:20:00 pm: i went to school in russia up to 8th grade and finished up in new york from 9-12..

my high school is no way lower standard than russian school i must say, there\'s just greater divisions.. for example, there\'s the honours class where kids take college level cources and there\'s esl class where people struggling to learn english :) .. yes, if you want to judge america by the esl class, then you are most certainly correct, but that\'s just not the case.. America has to have low standart education for the people that coming into the country and such..

In Russia it is way more simple to just buy your professors grade or cheat on the test. I hear on the news that Graduation exams are downloadable online or could be obtained prior to exams.. now that\'s rediculous.

Try and get SATs prior to its given day...

dunno about europe, but I am sure you all speak out of your love for europe and patriotic emotions...

Btw, good job on graduating, hopefully you graduated from honours classes :D
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Post by: Savion on June 18, 2004, 11:26:09 pm: pwned
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Post by: smoak on June 27, 2004, 06:11:17 pm: congrats dameon i still have 3 years to go. and xordan if you lokked around at american stuff almost everyone thinks the president is an idiot.